Google has been making some big moves in the gaming space lately. It recently released HTML5 versions of Bastion and Bejeweled in the Chrome Web Store, but Google+ hasn’t been forgotten. Google’s social network just got a shot in the arm compliments of Gameloft.

What happens when Firefox users around the world suddenly find that they can’t play their favorite Facebook game (Farmville) after a recent update? Mozilla updates Firefox. You didn’t honestly think that people would actually step away from their computers and do something else.

The problem started with Firefox 3.6.4. After Mozilla released it last week, and people around the world downloaded and installed it, they noticed things weren’t working right. They were having trouble accessing their farms. More specifically, the farms would not load and crash due to the new crash protection included in Firefox 3.6.4 that would keep unresponsive Flash from crashing the whole browser.

Since so many people were complaining, Mozilla went ahead and created Firefox 3.6.6…

Dr. Pepper has teamed up with Imaginuity NM to release a free-to-play, Flash browser games called Dr. Pepper Matchcaps. It is designed to run perfectly on the iPhone through Safari. If you don’t have an iPhone, don’t worry – you can enjoy the game in your regular Firefox or Safari browser as well. It will just temporarily resize the browser.

If you’re good at Bejeweled, or other similar match-3 games where you must shift a piece up, down, left or right to make three of a kind disappear, chances are you’ll be a natural at Dr. Pepper Matchcaps….

This has to be the sketchiest Firefox add-on I have ever seen. A user named FaCuZ2 has created a Firefox add-on application called FireNES which allows users to play 2,500 NES games within their Firefox browser without downloading any kind of additional programs or files. Users simply create an account on the Mozilla site, download Firefox, download the application and then begin playing illegal roms.

FireNES 1.0.1 was updated June 1, 2008, and so far 69,962 users have downloaded the application. 52,356 of those downloads happened this week. Firefox Facts investigated the application, and discovered that it accesses an online Java emulator to provide the service within Firefox. Its supposedly a fairly simple application according to reviews on the application’s page, though some reviewers have had trouble playing games in the application.